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V,
Th e College News
VOL. XX, No. 15
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1954
v i) Iclvl BIIYN MAWR
COLLEGE NBW8, 1:0,1
PRICE 10 CEN'IS
Vienna Choir Gives
Delightful Concert
Passionless Clarity, Sweetness,
Precision and Flexibility
Mark Singing
DIRECTOR IS ARTIST
(Especially Contributed by
Mr. Alwyne)
On Thursday last a very delightful
concert was given by the famous Wie-
ner Sangcrknaben who have been
making a very extended tour of the
United States. This was the last Con-
cert of a tour which has included fifty-
five cities and taken them from coast
to coast. The Choir, which consists of
18 bojvs of from 10 to 13 years of age,
must surely have aroused much envy
in the breasts of countless small boys
when it is remembered that their
travels have taken them, not only
across the American Continent, but
also through Scandinavia, France,
Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria,
Italy and Greece.
The boys, far from being fatigued
with their travels (and all their jour-
neys in this country have been made
in a huge motor coach)! expressed
themselves as being only regretful
that they'had'not had the opportunity
to see still moYe of America. They
may look like some of Raphaels cre-
ations when they are on the stage, de-
murely attired in their cassocks and
surplices, but they are real boys just
the same, as anyone would have dis-
covered who happened to see them
after the Concert indulging in a snow
fight with some of the Freshmen re-
turning from a rehearsal for Freshr
man show, or playing every conceiv-
able kind of prank while donning
their wigs and costumes for the Opera
which constituted the second part of
the program.
The Viennese choir was founded in
the same decade which saw the dis-
covery of America, and was attached
to the Imperial Chapel adjacent to
the Royal Residence in Vienna. Since
the war the boys have been housed
in the Imperial Palace itself. The
Choir has a wonderful tradition be-
-hind it, having had as members both
Haydn and Schubert and, in modern
(Contlnuea on rape Three)
Miss Park Gives Plans
. For New Residence Hall
News Try-Outs
The College News wishes to
announce the opening of the
competition for positions on the
Editorial Board for next year.
There will be a meeting for
those wishing to try out, in the
News office, Thursday evening
at six o'clock.
Mr. Warburg Shows
Public Debt to Artist
Art Education Should Teach
Cooperation of Collectors
With Artists
PUBLIC IS INSINCERE
In Chapel on Thursday morning,
Miss Park discussed plans for a new
dormitory for 150 students and for the
addition of 100 students to the stu-
dent body. This increase in the num-
ber of students seems the only possi-
ble way to add to the college income
the $60,000 needed to make the faculty
salaries and the range of subjects of-
fered more in keeping with what they
should be in a college of the type that
Bryn Mawr is. The advantage of a
small college would scarcely be lost by
the addition of twenty-five more stu-
dents to each class. The freshman
year is the, point at which this addi-
tion would be most marked. The pres-
ent freshman class and the present
junior class varied in number by as
many as twenty-five students on en-
trance to college. It would be possi-
ble and beneficial to divide the addi-
tional twenty-five students among the
twenty departments, and would serve
to make the small advanced classes
more interesting.
There is no more room for students
either in Dalton or in Taylor hall,
so any increase in the number of stu-
dents would have to be preceded by
the erection of the new Science build-
ing and of the new Library wings.
When these are completed, the mathe-
matics classes will move from Taylor
into the new Science building and the
art and archaeology classes from
Taylor and their present Library
quarters into the new Library wings.
Since the view from Merion Green
is too beautiful to be spoiled and the
land in the hollows is too wet for
building construction, the space oppo-
site Rockefeller Hall�known as the
(Continued on Pace 8br>
After coping with clubwomen and
collectors of Italian primitives who
still are ever ready with a question
about the purpose and meaning of
modern art, Mr. Edward M. M. War-
burg returned to Bryn Mawr Sun-
day afternoon to speak about "The
Artist in the World Today." He dis-
cussed the artist's work from the
varying points-of-view of the scholar,
the critic, the dealer, and the public,
and, in this connection, pointed out
the necessity for a system of art edu-
cation whereby the better artist might
be appreciated by his contemporaries,
and not relegated to an attic to starve.
The best artists are the most mis-
erably treated because they are not
enticed, by the public to look down.
If an artist be original, he creates
something that is non-existent and
consequently difficult for the public to
grasp without effort. His followers,
may, on the other hand, get direct
backing from the public, because they
make their master's idea more palat-
able. This lack of appreciation, and
interest, upon the part of the general
public has forced several other lines
of defense for the artist: there are,
in the first place, dealers who buy the
works of art they know they can sell;
museums, headed by scholars, design-
ed to present works of art to seri-
ous students; and private collectors.
All of these agencies encounter dif-
ficulties, however. Most dealers are
not situated financially so that they
can be patrons of art: if they are to
be patronized by a swank public, they
must carry the overhead needed to
maintain a swank place with a gal-
lery for public exhibition and they
must pay for a stream of publicity.
The dealer's opinion is necessarily
biased; he must make sales to com-
pensate for these expenses. He must
sell at least one large and expensive
work of art per year, and after that
his main consideration is getting an
artist to work for him regularly with
or on a commission basis or for a
set salary.
The private collector is likely either
to exercise his personal judgment or,
with an interest more in preservation
than in possession, to assemble a
group of collectors to make a collec-
tion for the community. In the for-
mer case, the collection is frequently
an expression of his desire for an ar-
tistic element in the larger unit of
the home, and as such it reflects his
likes and dislikes to no further pur-
pose. Otherwise these small private
collections become merely small mus-
eum galleries of works of art collected
for their quality and exhibited in
such a way that there the student may
find a laboratory in which to study
art.
The museum is, of course, the most
ambitious organization for the exhi-
bition and study of art: it aims to
be unbiased so that it may secure the
public's appreciation and its backing,
so that it may exhibit the finest art
and at the same time, help the artist
out of his economic troubles. The
main difficulty museum directors and
workers encounter lies in the trus-
tees' proneness to consider mainly the
number of people who have been in-
side the museum doors, and to dis-
count the fact that very few of these
have come to work or to study.
Of course, there is a small group
of scholars, who might well have pre-
pared the exhibition themselves had
(Continued on Page Five)
CALENDAR
Thurs., March 1. Dean Man-
ning will speak in Chapel.
Goodhart at 8.40 A. M.
Fri., March 2. Class swim-
ming meet. Gym at 4.00 P. M.
Sat., Mar. 3. Varsity bas-
ketball vs. Mt. Joseph's. First
and second teams. Gym at 10.00
A. M.
Sun., March 4. The Rev. John
Suter, Jr., will speak in Chapel.
Music Room at 7.30 P. M.
Mon., March 5. Mr. Reginald
Pole will speak on The Theatre
of the Future and the Signposts
of Today. Deanery at 6.00 P. M.
Mon., March 5. Mr. Horace
Alwynne, F.R.M.C.M., will give
a piano recital. Goodhart at
S.20 P. M.
Tues., March 6. Summer
School meeting. Deanery at 8.
Thurs., March 8. Clayton
Hamilton will speak on'The Yel-
low Jacket. Deanery at 4.30
P. M.
Faculty Formulates
Comprehensives Plan
Object of Exams Will be to Test
Students' Ability to Ap-
. ply Knowledge
60 IS PASSING GRADE
The Faculty at a special meeting 'i
March will probably be discussing a
plan for a final examination in the
major subject, of which the following
is a brief outline.
/�Nttiwe of the Examination
The final examination in the major
subject is not to be a test of general
information in the student's major
field. Its purpose will be to test the
student's intelligence in the discussion
of broad questions of development or
principle. Although it goes without
saying that every question would re-
quire definite and concrete knowledge
on certain points, the effort will be
made to ensure that the preparation
should not consist in the memorizing
of too many specific details. The ex-
amination would not be on all the work
covered by any department but would
be limited to certain fields within the
subject which have been clearly indi-
cated to the student. It might also
include questions on work done in al-
lied subjects. There would be a wide
choice of questions on every paper in
order to enable each student to dis-
ease those aspects of the subject on
which she has concentrated.
//�Scheduling and Grading of the
Examination
The examination will be held in
the first week of the final examina-
tion period and will consist of three
three-hour papers, probably set for
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
When departments prefer a different
type of examination with access to
books and formulae, the schedule may
be arranged to meet these needs pro-
vided that the examination is of ap-
proximately the same difficulty as the
one given by the departments.
The passing mark of the examina-
tion will be 60. By failing to pass
the examination a student will forfeit
her degree for the year, but may pre-
sent herself for re-examination.
///�Prejxiration for the
Examination
In order to provide time for ade-
quate preparation for the final exami-
nation the following changes ih the
present plan of work have been sug-
gested :
The work of the last two years for
the A.B. degree is to be separated as
far as credits are concerned from the
work of the first two years. The re-
quirement for the first two years will
be a minimum of IVt units.
The course requirement for the last
two years (except for honors stu-
dents) will be 7 units; the normal ar-
rangement for the work of the last
two years�4 units in the junior year.
3 units and preparation for the final
examination in the senior year.
The requirement for the major and
allied sujpjeets will be 6 units plus
(Continued on piire Fouri
Freshman Show Glorifies Bustle Era, Wins
Enthusiastic Praise of Uncritical Audience
Producers of M.lod-ous Melodrama Emphasize Local Color�
Costuming and Scenery Are True to Period�Plot Is
Background of Song and Dance
SOI HOMORES FAIL TO DISCOVER CLASS ANIMAL
Last Saturday evening the 1937 bits of stage mechanism that make
Freshman Show burst upon us in all the Freshman Show a delight to be-
its glory of bustles and peg-topped hold�Convention and the school of
trousers, and even the most cynical the drama mean nothing to -the class
yphomcre would be forced to admit of 1937, and they dp better than most
that Never Darken My Door Again dramatists to whom it is the law of
had much to recommend it. It has the prophets.
always been our contention that the The music was mainly the work of
Freshman Show is a thing apart in Ruth Woodward, and it combined
the theatre-unique in that it should with the choruses, trained by Isa-
be praised for its merits rather than belle Seltzer, to lend a distinction to
criticized for its shortcomings. the performance which has been sad-
The one and only object of. the ly lacking in many shows of the past.
freshmen is to amuse�not to afford Miss Woodward showed a versatility
the audience a glimpse into" theatrical j� fier composition which betrayed an
Utopia�and no one who was present advanced knowledge of her medium,
in Goodhart on Saturday could deny an,i produced in Lovely Lady a waltz
that the freshmen were admirably jn the best tradition, and then turned
successful in achieving their object- to the modern school for her inspire-
ive. The success which rewarded ,jon for The Dance of the Catt.
their efforts is even more remarkable The latter was, in our opinion, the
in the light of the facts that they had high point of the performance, when
one show already in rehearsal when the five cats appeared on the rail of
the powers-that-be decided otherwise the orchestra pit, and led by Miss
on the subject, and that two members Seltzer, presented us with an impres-
of the cast were forced at the last sionistic picture of eats playing in
minute to withdraw. the moonlight. It is a long time since-
Written by Edith Rose and Letitia such an ambitious bit of dancing has
Brown, the "melodious melodrama" been undertaken by freshmen, and the
concerned the adventures of Little success with which it was executed
Nell at Bryn Mawr, whither she went is sufficient proof of the ability of
at the behest of True Blue Harold, Miss Seltzer as a dancer and director,
who loved h r with a pure white Her four fellow cats had a better
flame, but still felt that a little edu- understanding of rhythm then we
cation would do her no harm. To col- knew existed in our midst. We were
legc-she went, with the consent of no definitely impressed.
one except Harold. Once within the The Flora Dora Sextette was in
ivied walls she fell afoul of one Ma- definite contrast to the cat element,
licious Montague, a "sneak from the needless to say, but it was character-
Greeks," who found her father was fated by the same excellence, and was
rich and _ would have perpetrated a definite pleasure to gaze upon. The
dark deeds to get a spot of that cash, men in grey trousers, tail coats and
if Harold had not been on the spot pearl grey toppers were as fascinated
to rescue Little Nell from the viper, by the very fancy Flora Dora Girls
and marry her without further ado. as our fathers were reputed to have
It all came out beautifully in the been in their day. The bar room
end, with Little Nell returning to her chorus, which was done in the best
home and fireside with the class ani- Bowery tradition, was thoroughly
mal as a present from Harold (who (Continued on Pa in Baven)
never forgot anything). When she ----------------------
entered the scene with the animal Y71ien Will Bryn Mawr Be
carefully wrapped in swaddling Officially Snowed-In?
clothes, the audience thought for one- , . '
terrible moment that she and Harold A t.urimls phenomenon has mani-
had gotten slightly ahead of then.- fl,s((,,| its(,lf ;lt n,.vn Mawr ,� ��, |agt
selves, and the unveiling of an, innoc- week| n,r th(, (,arly hours of thc ���.�_
ous green turtle took a great load |ng .�.,. ,10 ,onger rt,,1(k,m| hideous by
off everyone's mind. the caterwauling of alarm c/ocks.
As is quite obvious, the plot of Th|T(, js .,� ,x(.t,||ent rcason f�r this
Never Darken My Door Again wasjdepartarefromtteaccustomed. we no
entirely unimportant, and served sim-, 1()njror nee(, alarm t.,�,.ks, TIl,.,.,. ta
ply as a framework for the songs and
choruses. The dialogue had its high
moments, especially when the villain
was at work, and it wandered far
away into the blue occasionally as
when, for some reason which is still
obscure to us, we were introduced to
a broken Dresden Sheperdess who fell
not a girl in the college who, with
true pioneer spirit, does not leap from
her warm bed as the grey dawn ap-
proaches, in order to peer curiously
from the window and determine for
herself the burning question of the
ages: is the snow at last deep enough
for Brvn Mawr to be declared offi-
off a table to the horror of all andjc|a|]y snowed in?
then was heard of no more. At prcsint W(, lie unoffit.ia||y bur-
Again at the end of the first act it jt,(| beneath a blanket of some four
evidently occurred to thc authors that
a few more people were necessary on
the stage for the rendition of the final
chorus, so into the drawing: room
feet nf snow; the blanket, however,
is not all; there still remain the snow
drifts to be considered, and the snow
drifts are really something to con-
lustily the curtain4�fell on them and
they were allBwed to remove their
make-up and join the audience. Apain
there were" too many characters on
the stage in the second act to suit the
rushed an unidentified small boy, a si(ier Their innocent whiteness, their
cook, and a nurse complete with babe, unr(,vt,a|e)J depths, tell us nothing of
s their contents, and we shudder to
think of the missing classmates those
depths are probably concealing.
Every morning fewer and fewer
people struggle exhaustedly to the
breakfast-table; every evening vacant,
plans of the authors, so they introduc-1 darkene<J rooms speak significantly of
ed a mouse and drove all but the nee- ,he appaninK ton the snow is taking;
essary two ladies from the scene in groups nf weeping girls, clustered to-
terror, and the stage was cleared for j Rether for warmth, whisper dire tales
action. It is the employment of such [ of a hapless sister disappearing with
------------------------------------------horrible gurgles into the clutches of
Summer School the snow as .<he stagirered bravely
The faculty, the graduate home from Taylor, while her friends
school, and the undergraduate
body are cordially invited to the
Summer School meeting in the
Deanery, Tuesday, March 6, at
8 P. M. "
stood helplessly -bv calling messages
of cheer and listened anxiously for
the ever-fainter replies. At last, an
ominous silence brooded over the inno-
cent-seeming
(�o
-.**�
ling snowdrift and far
"on tinned on race Six) ' y

V,
Th e College News
VOL. XX, No. 15
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1954
v i) Iclvl BIIYN MAWR
COLLEGE NBW8, 1:0,1
PRICE 10 CEN'IS
Vienna Choir Gives
Delightful Concert
Passionless Clarity, Sweetness,
Precision and Flexibility
Mark Singing
DIRECTOR IS ARTIST
(Especially Contributed by
Mr. Alwyne)
On Thursday last a very delightful
concert was given by the famous Wie-
ner Sangcrknaben who have been
making a very extended tour of the
United States. This was the last Con-
cert of a tour which has included fifty-
five cities and taken them from coast
to coast. The Choir, which consists of
18 bojvs of from 10 to 13 years of age,
must surely have aroused much envy
in the breasts of countless small boys
when it is remembered that their
travels have taken them, not only
across the American Continent, but
also through Scandinavia, France,
Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria,
Italy and Greece.
The boys, far from being fatigued
with their travels (and all their jour-
neys in this country have been made
in a huge motor coach)! expressed
themselves as being only regretful
that they'had'not had the opportunity
to see still moYe of America. They
may look like some of Raphaels cre-
ations when they are on the stage, de-
murely attired in their cassocks and
surplices, but they are real boys just
the same, as anyone would have dis-
covered who happened to see them
after the Concert indulging in a snow
fight with some of the Freshmen re-
turning from a rehearsal for Freshr
man show, or playing every conceiv-
able kind of prank while donning
their wigs and costumes for the Opera
which constituted the second part of
the program.
The Viennese choir was founded in
the same decade which saw the dis-
covery of America, and was attached
to the Imperial Chapel adjacent to
the Royal Residence in Vienna. Since
the war the boys have been housed
in the Imperial Palace itself. The
Choir has a wonderful tradition be-
-hind it, having had as members both
Haydn and Schubert and, in modern
(Contlnuea on rape Three)
Miss Park Gives Plans
. For New Residence Hall
News Try-Outs
The College News wishes to
announce the opening of the
competition for positions on the
Editorial Board for next year.
There will be a meeting for
those wishing to try out, in the
News office, Thursday evening
at six o'clock.
Mr. Warburg Shows
Public Debt to Artist
Art Education Should Teach
Cooperation of Collectors
With Artists
PUBLIC IS INSINCERE
In Chapel on Thursday morning,
Miss Park discussed plans for a new
dormitory for 150 students and for the
addition of 100 students to the stu-
dent body. This increase in the num-
ber of students seems the only possi-
ble way to add to the college income
the $60,000 needed to make the faculty
salaries and the range of subjects of-
fered more in keeping with what they
should be in a college of the type that
Bryn Mawr is. The advantage of a
small college would scarcely be lost by
the addition of twenty-five more stu-
dents to each class. The freshman
year is the, point at which this addi-
tion would be most marked. The pres-
ent freshman class and the present
junior class varied in number by as
many as twenty-five students on en-
trance to college. It would be possi-
ble and beneficial to divide the addi-
tional twenty-five students among the
twenty departments, and would serve
to make the small advanced classes
more interesting.
There is no more room for students
either in Dalton or in Taylor hall,
so any increase in the number of stu-
dents would have to be preceded by
the erection of the new Science build-
ing and of the new Library wings.
When these are completed, the mathe-
matics classes will move from Taylor
into the new Science building and the
art and archaeology classes from
Taylor and their present Library
quarters into the new Library wings.
Since the view from Merion Green
is too beautiful to be spoiled and the
land in the hollows is too wet for
building construction, the space oppo-
site Rockefeller Hall�known as the
(Continued on Pace 8br>
After coping with clubwomen and
collectors of Italian primitives who
still are ever ready with a question
about the purpose and meaning of
modern art, Mr. Edward M. M. War-
burg returned to Bryn Mawr Sun-
day afternoon to speak about "The
Artist in the World Today." He dis-
cussed the artist's work from the
varying points-of-view of the scholar,
the critic, the dealer, and the public,
and, in this connection, pointed out
the necessity for a system of art edu-
cation whereby the better artist might
be appreciated by his contemporaries,
and not relegated to an attic to starve.
The best artists are the most mis-
erably treated because they are not
enticed, by the public to look down.
If an artist be original, he creates
something that is non-existent and
consequently difficult for the public to
grasp without effort. His followers,
may, on the other hand, get direct
backing from the public, because they
make their master's idea more palat-
able. This lack of appreciation, and
interest, upon the part of the general
public has forced several other lines
of defense for the artist: there are,
in the first place, dealers who buy the
works of art they know they can sell;
museums, headed by scholars, design-
ed to present works of art to seri-
ous students; and private collectors.
All of these agencies encounter dif-
ficulties, however. Most dealers are
not situated financially so that they
can be patrons of art: if they are to
be patronized by a swank public, they
must carry the overhead needed to
maintain a swank place with a gal-
lery for public exhibition and they
must pay for a stream of publicity.
The dealer's opinion is necessarily
biased; he must make sales to com-
pensate for these expenses. He must
sell at least one large and expensive
work of art per year, and after that
his main consideration is getting an
artist to work for him regularly with
or on a commission basis or for a
set salary.
The private collector is likely either
to exercise his personal judgment or,
with an interest more in preservation
than in possession, to assemble a
group of collectors to make a collec-
tion for the community. In the for-
mer case, the collection is frequently
an expression of his desire for an ar-
tistic element in the larger unit of
the home, and as such it reflects his
likes and dislikes to no further pur-
pose. Otherwise these small private
collections become merely small mus-
eum galleries of works of art collected
for their quality and exhibited in
such a way that there the student may
find a laboratory in which to study
art.
The museum is, of course, the most
ambitious organization for the exhi-
bition and study of art: it aims to
be unbiased so that it may secure the
public's appreciation and its backing,
so that it may exhibit the finest art
and at the same time, help the artist
out of his economic troubles. The
main difficulty museum directors and
workers encounter lies in the trus-
tees' proneness to consider mainly the
number of people who have been in-
side the museum doors, and to dis-
count the fact that very few of these
have come to work or to study.
Of course, there is a small group
of scholars, who might well have pre-
pared the exhibition themselves had
(Continued on Page Five)
CALENDAR
Thurs., March 1. Dean Man-
ning will speak in Chapel.
Goodhart at 8.40 A. M.
Fri., March 2. Class swim-
ming meet. Gym at 4.00 P. M.
Sat., Mar. 3. Varsity bas-
ketball vs. Mt. Joseph's. First
and second teams. Gym at 10.00
A. M.
Sun., March 4. The Rev. John
Suter, Jr., will speak in Chapel.
Music Room at 7.30 P. M.
Mon., March 5. Mr. Reginald
Pole will speak on The Theatre
of the Future and the Signposts
of Today. Deanery at 6.00 P. M.
Mon., March 5. Mr. Horace
Alwynne, F.R.M.C.M., will give
a piano recital. Goodhart at
S.20 P. M.
Tues., March 6. Summer
School meeting. Deanery at 8.
Thurs., March 8. Clayton
Hamilton will speak on'The Yel-
low Jacket. Deanery at 4.30
P. M.
Faculty Formulates
Comprehensives Plan
Object of Exams Will be to Test
Students' Ability to Ap-
. ply Knowledge
60 IS PASSING GRADE
The Faculty at a special meeting 'i
March will probably be discussing a
plan for a final examination in the
major subject, of which the following
is a brief outline.
/�Nttiwe of the Examination
The final examination in the major
subject is not to be a test of general
information in the student's major
field. Its purpose will be to test the
student's intelligence in the discussion
of broad questions of development or
principle. Although it goes without
saying that every question would re-
quire definite and concrete knowledge
on certain points, the effort will be
made to ensure that the preparation
should not consist in the memorizing
of too many specific details. The ex-
amination would not be on all the work
covered by any department but would
be limited to certain fields within the
subject which have been clearly indi-
cated to the student. It might also
include questions on work done in al-
lied subjects. There would be a wide
choice of questions on every paper in
order to enable each student to dis-
ease those aspects of the subject on
which she has concentrated.
//�Scheduling and Grading of the
Examination
The examination will be held in
the first week of the final examina-
tion period and will consist of three
three-hour papers, probably set for
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
When departments prefer a different
type of examination with access to
books and formulae, the schedule may
be arranged to meet these needs pro-
vided that the examination is of ap-
proximately the same difficulty as the
one given by the departments.
The passing mark of the examina-
tion will be 60. By failing to pass
the examination a student will forfeit
her degree for the year, but may pre-
sent herself for re-examination.
///�Prejxiration for the
Examination
In order to provide time for ade-
quate preparation for the final exami-
nation the following changes ih the
present plan of work have been sug-
gested :
The work of the last two years for
the A.B. degree is to be separated as
far as credits are concerned from the
work of the first two years. The re-
quirement for the first two years will
be a minimum of IVt units.
The course requirement for the last
two years (except for honors stu-
dents) will be 7 units; the normal ar-
rangement for the work of the last
two years�4 units in the junior year.
3 units and preparation for the final
examination in the senior year.
The requirement for the major and
allied sujpjeets will be 6 units plus
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Freshman Show Glorifies Bustle Era, Wins
Enthusiastic Praise of Uncritical Audience
Producers of M.lod-ous Melodrama Emphasize Local Color�
Costuming and Scenery Are True to Period�Plot Is
Background of Song and Dance
SOI HOMORES FAIL TO DISCOVER CLASS ANIMAL
Last Saturday evening the 1937 bits of stage mechanism that make
Freshman Show burst upon us in all the Freshman Show a delight to be-
its glory of bustles and peg-topped hold�Convention and the school of
trousers, and even the most cynical the drama mean nothing to -the class
yphomcre would be forced to admit of 1937, and they dp better than most
that Never Darken My Door Again dramatists to whom it is the law of
had much to recommend it. It has the prophets.
always been our contention that the The music was mainly the work of
Freshman Show is a thing apart in Ruth Woodward, and it combined
the theatre-unique in that it should with the choruses, trained by Isa-
be praised for its merits rather than belle Seltzer, to lend a distinction to
criticized for its shortcomings. the performance which has been sad-
The one and only object of. the ly lacking in many shows of the past.
freshmen is to amuse�not to afford Miss Woodward showed a versatility
the audience a glimpse into" theatrical j� fier composition which betrayed an
Utopia�and no one who was present advanced knowledge of her medium,
in Goodhart on Saturday could deny an,i produced in Lovely Lady a waltz
that the freshmen were admirably jn the best tradition, and then turned
successful in achieving their object- to the modern school for her inspire-
ive. The success which rewarded ,jon for The Dance of the Catt.
their efforts is even more remarkable The latter was, in our opinion, the
in the light of the facts that they had high point of the performance, when
one show already in rehearsal when the five cats appeared on the rail of
the powers-that-be decided otherwise the orchestra pit, and led by Miss
on the subject, and that two members Seltzer, presented us with an impres-
of the cast were forced at the last sionistic picture of eats playing in
minute to withdraw. the moonlight. It is a long time since-
Written by Edith Rose and Letitia such an ambitious bit of dancing has
Brown, the "melodious melodrama" been undertaken by freshmen, and the
concerned the adventures of Little success with which it was executed
Nell at Bryn Mawr, whither she went is sufficient proof of the ability of
at the behest of True Blue Harold, Miss Seltzer as a dancer and director,
who loved h r with a pure white Her four fellow cats had a better
flame, but still felt that a little edu- understanding of rhythm then we
cation would do her no harm. To col- knew existed in our midst. We were
legc-she went, with the consent of no definitely impressed.
one except Harold. Once within the The Flora Dora Sextette was in
ivied walls she fell afoul of one Ma- definite contrast to the cat element,
licious Montague, a "sneak from the needless to say, but it was character-
Greeks," who found her father was fated by the same excellence, and was
rich and _ would have perpetrated a definite pleasure to gaze upon. The
dark deeds to get a spot of that cash, men in grey trousers, tail coats and
if Harold had not been on the spot pearl grey toppers were as fascinated
to rescue Little Nell from the viper, by the very fancy Flora Dora Girls
and marry her without further ado. as our fathers were reputed to have
It all came out beautifully in the been in their day. The bar room
end, with Little Nell returning to her chorus, which was done in the best
home and fireside with the class ani- Bowery tradition, was thoroughly
mal as a present from Harold (who (Continued on Pa in Baven)
never forgot anything). When she ----------------------
entered the scene with the animal Y71ien Will Bryn Mawr Be
carefully wrapped in swaddling Officially Snowed-In?
clothes, the audience thought for one- , . '
terrible moment that she and Harold A t.urimls phenomenon has mani-
had gotten slightly ahead of then.- fl,s((,,| its(,lf ;lt n,.vn Mawr ,� ��, |agt
selves, and the unveiling of an, innoc- week| n,r th(, (,arly hours of thc ���.�_
ous green turtle took a great load |ng .�.,. ,10 ,onger rt,,1(k,m| hideous by
off everyone's mind. the caterwauling of alarm c/ocks.
As is quite obvious, the plot of Th|T(, js .,� ,x(.t,||ent rcason f�r this
Never Darken My Door Again wasjdepartarefromtteaccustomed. we no
entirely unimportant, and served sim-, 1()njror nee(, alarm t.,�,.ks, TIl,.,.,. ta
ply as a framework for the songs and
choruses. The dialogue had its high
moments, especially when the villain
was at work, and it wandered far
away into the blue occasionally as
when, for some reason which is still
obscure to us, we were introduced to
a broken Dresden Sheperdess who fell
not a girl in the college who, with
true pioneer spirit, does not leap from
her warm bed as the grey dawn ap-
proaches, in order to peer curiously
from the window and determine for
herself the burning question of the
ages: is the snow at last deep enough
for Brvn Mawr to be declared offi-
off a table to the horror of all andjc|a|]y snowed in?
then was heard of no more. At prcsint W(, lie unoffit.ia||y bur-
Again at the end of the first act it jt,(| beneath a blanket of some four
evidently occurred to thc authors that
a few more people were necessary on
the stage for the rendition of the final
chorus, so into the drawing: room
feet nf snow; the blanket, however,
is not all; there still remain the snow
drifts to be considered, and the snow
drifts are really something to con-
lustily the curtain4�fell on them and
they were allBwed to remove their
make-up and join the audience. Apain
there were" too many characters on
the stage in the second act to suit the
rushed an unidentified small boy, a si(ier Their innocent whiteness, their
cook, and a nurse complete with babe, unr(,vt,a|e)J depths, tell us nothing of
s their contents, and we shudder to
think of the missing classmates those
depths are probably concealing.
Every morning fewer and fewer
people struggle exhaustedly to the
breakfast-table; every evening vacant,
plans of the authors, so they introduc-1 darkene